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Authors Information
SequenceTypeName TitleFirst NameLast NameDepartmentInstitute / Affiliation
1 Author Dr. Sarmistha De Basu Social Science Kolkata Society for Asian Studies
Abstract Information
TrackID
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IUAES23_ABS_F6762
Abstract Theme
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P056 - Bridging Marginalities and Fostering Social Tolerance: Exploring the thought process of the South Asian Youth
Abstract Title
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Marginal Social Communities of City Kolkata: The Low Income people
Short Abstract
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The lower income group of people mostly have come to Kolkata from the under developed villages of West Bengal or the neighbouring states or from any neighbouring countries. They come with hope and expectations to live better life but most of the cases they face tremendous struggle. The lives they are bound to live have no freedom. They have no agricultural legacy to continue with, no right to do any work as they wish to do.
Long Abstract
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The marginal social communities who took shelter in this city at different time out of various socio economical constrain, they couldn’t leave this city afterwards. They struggle for livelihood and let their family to settle here. The young generation has to suffer for their life. Many of them have not any proper place to sleep, proper food to eat. For them the Government schools are open with low cost education but poor in quality. They have no playground. Not enough money to be a member of a library. Most of the times they have to work as labour. The slum culture is not healthy. Many of them are victim of child abasement. Depressed and rough and tough in nature young peoples are victim of the social injustice and very often they become victim of illegal affairs. The people who are able to achieve success in life are suffering from lack of values. They have their own family history, legacy of their heritage, identity but they are bound to leave those cultures and discontinue their heredity. They are all lifted from their own root and settled in a place where they are not willing to live any more but they are forced to live. They must prove themselves every point of their life. Many new cultural phenomena arise within these marginal communities. They are mostly forgotten their primitive cultural background and also the subaltern heredity. If we study the historiography of these marginal social communities we can discover them in a new way. The communities have a new world where social justice is a thing to define from a new point of view and political rebellion is most common to control these communities. I have to present the social perspective of the marginal communities of Kolkata with their cultural discourse.

Abstract Keywords
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subaltern studies, historiography, social justice, political rebellion, cultural studies.